Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.